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Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, published in 1748, is one of the most important works of philosophy ever written. It systematically established that effect follows cause, an idea that seems so natural to us now that it seems strange it needed to be proved. As it turns out, in the 18th century it was highly controversial. This book is essential reading not only for an example of how a rigorous proof can change the world, but also for the superb introduction by Peter Millican, which is worth the price of the book on its own. Perhaps its greatest success is that it explains why Hume had to go to such efforts to prove cause follows effect, and the arguments (and particularly contemporary religious doctrine) that he had to overcome (even though they seem nonsensical now – an excellent lesson for all of us). Make sure to buy this edition of Hume’s work.
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Stan and Charmaine are living in their car, struggling through desperate poverty during a economic collapse. An advert for the positron project offers them a stable job and homes of their own: provided that every second month they swap their home for a prison cell. At first is well, but as they steadily become obsessed with their counterparts who are in their home while they take their turn in prison, their lives begin to unravel faster than the positron experiment itself.
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Serena has been brought up by her brother Samuel after the disappearance of their father sent their mother into the embrace of alcoholism. While exploring an abandoned church, Serena meets the angel Calius, banished from paradise for a crime he cannot remember, and the demon Killian who has been assigned to watch over him by heaven. Has Serena inadvertently stumbled into this world beyond her imagining, or has she deeper connections to heaven and hell than she ever imagined possible?
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There’s a problem aboard the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid. Every time there is an away mission, the crew encounters some sort of deadly confrontation with alien forces. The ships captain and the bridge team always survive. Some poor sucker from the lower decks is always killed.
Now the ship’s crew are expending all their energy avoiding being assigned to Away Missions, until new crewmember Andrew Dahl stumbles across information that may offer him and his fellow redshirts a chance to escape with their lives.
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Jave Lovell is a gypsy-born nobody with a natural talent for horses but no money to race. Rupert Campell-Black is a charming but brutish aristocrat who has never had a problem with money, spending it to get his way, or winning medals. Naturally, the two detest one another.
When Jake has the good fortune to marry a wealthy debutant, he finally has a chance to prove he can make it as a rider. Rupert Campbell-Black will use all means, fair or foul, to get in his way. But in the cutthroat world of show jumping, can either of them resist their hunger for fame, money, and sex long enough to get on their horses?
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